Bonekickers is a brand new BBC drama about a team of archaeologists that apparently live on some alternate universe where people care enough about what they do that they constantly want to kill them. Don’t get me wrong – I find anthropology fascinating. Still, it’s a far stretch to turn a fairly boring job into a major crime drama.
Seriously, as much as I hated “The Da Vinci Code,” even Dan Brown could have come up with better story lines. This is my first post on this blog and I’m bored to tears just writing about this stupid show. In the first episode (the only one I could stand to watch), our heroes are chased around by crazy evangelical Christians who want to rid England of non-believers and get their hands on various religious artifacts to gain the power to do so.
Now, there have been some pretty awful shows that I’ve continued to watch (October Road, anyone?) for whatever reason. I get bored and mostly I just need something to be compelling about a show for me to stick around. There is not, however, one single positive thing about Bonekickers. The writing is boring, the characters are one-dimensional, and I couldn’t really care less about any of the little mysteries and side-stories they were trying to hook me with. Gugu Mbatha-Raw, who plays “Viv,” is the absolute worst, as she’s literally just a pretty face. I’m not even sure what her job description is because they initially made it seem as if she barely had the qualifications to exist. It looked to me like the girl had never even been on a dig site before, but she still ends up being crucial to their discoveries mostly out of pure luck. There is one scene where she’s staring at something-or-other (I think it was a piece of metal or maybe the coin. I really don’t remember.), and she suddenly knows where to dig!!
From what I can tell, ratings are dropping drastically and the critics have ripped the show into a festering, bloody mess. Still, it made it through several episodes already and they haven’t shut it down yet. I’m not familiar enough with British TV to understand this, but it seems absurd to me that they’ve yet to make more episodes of the immensely popular Being Human (BBC 3), but they’ve got an entire season of this bullshit.
